Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apprehension & Exile. Ky decided on a subtle ploy. On the same day that he took off for Australia and New Zealand last month, he sent Co to Taiwan, ostensibly to attend a ceremony opening direct air service from Taipei to Saigon. The decision to dismiss Co had already been made at a meeting of the military Directory a few days before, and Ky did not want Co around Saigon to spark any possible retaliatory coup in his absence. When the news of Go's downfall broke in Saigon, both the Premier and his enemy were well clear...
...Senseless Action." The Berkeley student government fired off letters to 14 regents who had voted to dismiss Kerr, saying that their action had been "senseless and illogical." The firing was later denounced at a rally of 7,000 students at U.C.L.A., which was addressed by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who later said he felt "a sense of deep sadness" over Kerr's dismissal. Similar protest rallies attracted 6,000 students at Berkeley, 5,000 at the Santa Barbara campus, 3,500 at Riverside. The university's nine chancellors met in Los Angeles, pledged to continue Kerr...
Though today's pundits often dismiss Viet Nam as a little country of little strategic consequence, it was Viet Nam -then Indo-China-that played a major role in getting the U.S. into World War II. When Japan moved into the region in 1941, thereby gaining a commanding geographical position in South-east Asia-to say nothing of a wealth of rubber resources-the U.S. considered the situation threatening enough to freeze all Japanese assets. Japan's countermove came just four months later-at Pearl Harbor...
While table varieties accounted for only 20% of U.S. wine sales 30 years ago, they are now up to 40%, and industry sources expect that they will reach 75% before long. New York producers plan to benefit most-and they archly dismiss the lushly productive vineyards of their California rivals. Says Ernest I. Reveal, president of Widmer's Wine Cellars, Inc., the No. 2 New York vintner (after Taylor): "We like the fact that the vine has to hustle its bustle a bit to give us the required grape...
...private university have jumped nearly ten-fold! Except for the children of rich families, most students have found it exceedingly difficult to pay such a big sum for school fees. In order to make some money, they cannot help, as soon as the school bell rings to dismiss school, rushing to various hotels, restaurants, and coffee houses to fight for jobs as dish-washers, waiters, baby-sitters, etc. They often work from 4 o'clock in the afternoon straight to midnight; after that they drag their tired bodies back to their dormitories. And the wages they get are pitifully small...